Qian Xinxin saw a table full of fried chicken, french fries, egg tarts, and ketchup, all still crispy from just being fried, as she took them out of her ring.
Gazing at the dazzling array of delicacies and inhaling the special aroma of high-calorie food, Qian Xinxin couldn't help but swallow hard.
In times of peace, she would have avoided such things like the plague, all for the sake of maintaining her figure.
Now, high-calorie food was a hot commodity. Ordinary food was already hard to come by to fill one's stomach, but high-calorie food not only didn't lead to weight gain but was perfect for satisfying hunger.
Although there were many semi-finished fried foods in the black market, their production consumed too many resources, requiring natural gas and a large amount of cooking oil, and the final fried products might not even be tasty.
"Can... can I eat?"
"Of course, please help yourself!"
Zhang Chen nodded and picked up a burger, taking a bite.
He wouldn't treat Qian Xinxin with the complete set of dishes prepared by the empress of another world; that would be too extravagant and wasteful.
As for this woman, he hadn't seen any contribution from her so far. Giving her fried chicken was already considered a welcome banquet.
Fried chicken was easy to obtain anyway; he could just have Little Soft open a newly contaminated world, go in, and grab some.
At first, Qian Xinxin could still maintain a semblance of elegant eating posture.
But the moment the aroma of the fried chicken exploded in her mouth, the fragrance of fresh chicken, combined with the crispy texture of the skin...
Qian Xinxin couldn't help but gorge herself.
She no longer cared about her image.
Zhao Xiyue was much better in this regard. When Zhang Chen sent her the fried chicken earlier, Zhao Xiyue was happy, but she maintained her composure throughout, her beautiful eyes constantly fixed on Zhang Chen, as if very concerned about his gaze.
A few minutes later, Qian Xinxin had cleared the table of all the food.
She patted her slightly protruding belly with a look of contentment.
At this moment, her gaze towards Zhang Chen became even more alluring and seductive.
"What do you want to ask? I'll tell you everything I know, and I won't hold back. We can be completely honest with each other!"
Qian Xinxin said lazily.
At the same time, her high-heeled shoe on her right foot had somehow slipped off, and her stocking-clad foot brushed against Zhang Chen's calf intentionally or unintentionally.
Zhang Chen quickly moved his leg back—did she not wash her feet before touching him!
If Zhao Xiyue had done this, Zhang Chen would have definitely pushed her onto the dining table and then...
But Qian Xinxin?
Zhang Chen didn't trust this woman much, and his favorable impression hadn't reached that level.
"I want to know, what exactly is the Supreme Being!"
"That pervert with the yellow ring from earlier said he was ordered by the Supreme Being to capture slaves."
"Before he could reveal any specific information about the Supreme Being, he was killed."
Zhang Chen asked.
"The Supreme Being?"
Upon hearing the name, Qian Xinxin felt as if she had been electrocuted. Her lazy and charming aura instantly vanished, replaced by a face full of surprise and fear.
"This guy is still alive? The last time I saw him, he looked around forty years old. I thought he would have died of old age after two cycles of reincarnation!"
"Or maybe... powerful individuals at that level don't die of old age..."
"Tell me about this guy!" Seeing that Qian Xinxin indeed knew the Supreme Being, Zhang Chen became eager and asked.
"Supreme Being is both a power level and what the reincarnators call him!"
"After Evolver comes Transcender, after Transcender comes Inheritor, and after Inheritor comes Supreme Being."
"The only Supreme Being I know of is him. I don't even know his name."
As she spoke, Qian Xinxin couldn't help but sigh, then continued:
"In our current cycle of reincarnation, my strength isn't considered that of a powerhouse. I can barely rank in the top fifty."
"The reason I'm now in the top three isn't because my strength has greatly increased with the help of the black market."
"It's because of the enslavement war launched by the reincarnators of the yellow ring. All the powerhouses who participated in that war died, that's all."
"If it weren't for the opening of a new reincarnation cycle, the powerhouses of our current cycle would have been pushed back several stages."
"I see, no wonder Clarence was so eager to defect to the Supreme Being. He was simply terrified!" Zhang Chen nodded and said.
"As for how powerful the Supreme Being is, no one knows. In that war, the yellow ring only deployed ordinary combat power, and they utterly crushed us without any suspense!"
"Even Leng Yan, the deputy legion commander of the Black Tail Swallow Legion, was captured and turned into a slave."
"The Black Tail Legion was more than half destroyed, and their strength is far from what it used to be. I don't know if they are still pursuing their dream of ending the apocalypse."
"They can't even get past the Supreme Being... Their dream will likely remain just a dream."
Qian Xinxin still felt a lingering fear recalling that battle.
If it weren't for the reincarnation cycle kicking in, she too would have probably died in that battle.
"The Supreme Being is two levels higher than a Transcender. How did he upgrade so quickly?"
Zhang Chen asked.
This was because at the end of each advancement, new core requirements would emerge, slowing down level progression.
Even if Zhang Chen went through the Giant stage and then the Ultimate Apocalypse stage step-by-step, he would only barely reach the strength of the Supreme Being.
And that was with the help of prompts and meteor energy.
How could an ordinary person upgrade so quickly?
"That's a mystery. Even if someone knew the secret to such rapid upgrades, they wouldn't share it with anyone else."
"It's better to be powerful, dominate a region, and do whatever you want. Why bother saving this person and that person, enduring hardship without reward?"
"Moreover, if you cultivate a competitor, it will threaten your own survival."
"However, there are still many theories circulating. Some say he can collect multiple times the cores, hence his rapid upgrades, while others say he can see information that we can't, giving him an informational advantage, hence his rapid upgrades."
"But theories are just theories. Only the Supreme Being himself probably knows the truth!"
Qian Xinxin replied.
"Can see information that others cannot?"
Zhang Chen's heart skipped a beat. How was this ability so similar to his own?!
Could the Supreme Being also see prompts?
"Actually, I heard that the Supreme Being originally wanted to end the apocalypse. But something happened, and he abandoned that goal, instead becoming a tyrant in the apocalypse."
As she said this, Qian Xinxin cast a meaningful glance at Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen's current strength and status bore some resemblance to the legendary young Supreme Being...